Hebe Camargo's new home

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Hebe Camargo's new home

Source: www.maganews.com.br

After presenting her weekly [1] show for 25 years on the SBT channel, Hebe begins 2011 at a new "home": Rede TV

    Hebe has been on an emotional roller-coaster [2] in recent months. In January 2010 she discovered she had cancer. The news shocked Brazil. After several weeks of treatment the doctors gave her great news: she was cured.   In March, she again presented her weekly TV show on the SBT channel and had big name guests such as Ana Maria Braga, Xuxa, and Marilia Gabriela. But the most emotional moment came in December.  Hebe Camargo was honored by a TV channel that is one of SBT's big rivals, Globo.  The honor was led by presenter Faustão. Days later she announced she was leaving SBT, where she had worked for 25 years, to present a weekly program on Rede TV. Hebe and Amilcare Dallevo Jr. (the owner of Rede TV) have been close friends since 1994, when they met at a party.

The queen of Brazilian television

Hebe Maria Monteiro de Camargo Ravagnani was born in Taubaté, in São Paulo state, on March 8, 1929. Her father, Fego Camargo, was a musician. Hebe took part on the first programs to be broadcast on Brazilian TV in the early 1950s, and is considered to be one of the most important personalities in the history of Brazilian television. In a career spanning [3] 60 years she has worked at several TV channels, such as Tupi, Record, Bandeirantes, SBT, and now, the Rede TV. Her new program will be launched in March. Besides being a presenter, Hebe has also excelled [4] as a singer and recorded several albums. On her TV programs she has had important guests from the international music scene, such as Julio Iglesias and Shakira. Hebe has been married twice and has one son, aged 45, named Marcelo.

Matéria publicada na edição de número 59 de Maganews.

Foto – Lourival Ribeiro / SBT

Vocabulary

1 weekly - semanal

2 roller-coaster – “montanha russa”

3 in a career spanning 60 years -  ao longo da carreira de 60 anos

4 to excel – sobressair-se

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Brighton's Burning

Source: www.speakup.com.br
Standard: British accent
Language level: Pre-Intermediate 

Brighton’s Burning!

Every year on December 21^st time stops. It’s the winter solstice. Time slows down and then the impossible happens: the pendulum of time stops. There is a moment of limbo. Only an explosion of energy can start the pendulum again.

PARTY TIME

The people of Brighton must save the world. In the evening they leave their homes in colourful costumes. They hold clock lanterns of different sizes and join a parade through the streets. Drummers play as the parade marches to the seafront. Here the people place their lanterns on a huge pyre. Finally, there is an explosion of light: fireworks fill the sky and the enormous pyre bursts into flames. The clocks of the world tick once more and the new solar year begins. This is Brighton’s Burning the Clocks celebration.

ANTI-CHRISTMAS

Burning the Clocks isn’t a traditional pagan festival; it’s the invention of community arts group Same Sky. They say: “We created Burning the Clocks as an antidote to the commercialization of Christmas. It’s a non-religious event that everyone can join in.”

The group took elements from the past, like pagan solstice festivals, celebrations of place and home, and the sharing of hopes for the future. Organiser Rebbeca Smith explains: “People make their own lanterns. Each one is unique and precious, but everyone then gives their lantern to the fire.” Burning the Clocks has about 1.000 participants and attracts 20.000 spectators each year.

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

Same Sky organise festival workshops in schools and the community. They teach people how to make the lanterns from willow and paper. Same Sky has a similar project in London: you can see their lily lanterns in the fountains of Trafelgar Square during the Asian festival of Diwali. The group organizes artistic projects throughout Britain and the world.

Pro-jovem, part 24, Inglês Vip

 

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Julia:  Hello guys! So, are you ready to go(1)?
Pedro: Yes. Where is the Community the TV Station?
Julia:  I don’t know. It’s not in the neighborhood. Let’s ask for directions.

Pedro: Yes, sure.
Julia: Excuse, sir. How do we get to(2) the Community TV Station from here?
The Painter: The Community TV Station is downtown(3). You have to turn right(4) on the fourth street. Go
straight ahead(5), on the second block(6), you turn left(7). There is a bus stop(8) right at the corner(9).

Lucas: How long does it take(10) for us to get there?

The Painter: Around half an hour(11)…

Julia: Oh boys! We have to go hurry up!(12)

Pedro: Here. This should be the bus stop.
Lucas: But this is a supermarket. There is something wrong(13). Let’s ask for directions again(14).

Julia:  Excuse me sir, how do we…Wait, do I know you? Ok.. How do we get to the Community TV Station from here?

The Gardener:  Oh, it’s easy. You are four blocks away from(15) the subway(16). Turn left on the third street.

You can take the subway and get off(17) on the fourth stop.

Julia:  Thanks.

Julia: There is no subway here! What are we doing wrong?

Lucas: I don’t know! Let’s try (18) again.

Julia: Yeah. Excuse me sir…You, again?

Man:  What?
Julia: Never mind(19). How do I get to the Community TV Station from here?

Man:  The Community TV Station? Go straight ahead. And the end of this street(20), there is a big avenue(21). You

Turn right on the avenue. You walk three blocks, and you are there. The Community TV Station is right at

Corner.

Julia: Ok, Thanks.

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Vocabulary

1.        1.  Are you ready to go? = Vocês estão prontos para ir?
 2.      How do we get to… = Como nós chegamos a…
 3.      Downtown = Centro da cidade 4.      Turn right = Virar à direita
 5.      Go straight ahead = Siga direto em frente
 6.      Block = Quarteirão
 7.      Turn left = Virar à esquerda
 8.      Bus stop = Ponto de ônibus
 9.      Right at the corner = Bem na esquina
 10.  How long does it take = Quanto tempo leva
 11.  Around half an hour = Em torno de meia-hora
 12.  Hurry up! = Vamos logo! , apressem-se!
 13.  There is something wrong = Há alguma coisa errada
 14.  Again = Novamente
 15.  Away from = Longe de
 16.  Subway = Metrô
 17.  Get off = Descer (transporte)
 18.  Let’s try = Vamos tentar
 19.  Never mind = “Deixe pra lá”
 20.  Streeet = rua
 21. Avenue = Avenida

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Words and their stories, food expressions, part II

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Source: www.voanews.com 

Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. We received a list of expressions about food from Elenir Scardueli, a listener from Brazil.

Today we will talk about some good things to eat. If something is new and improved, we say it is the best thing since sliced bread. In the past, bread was only sold in loaves in baked goods stores. Today, American supermarkets sell sliced bread in plastic bags. Many people thought this was easier because you did not have to cut the bread yourself. The person who makes the most money in a family is called the breadwinner.

Bread and butter issues are those that are most important to Americans and affect them directly – like jobs and health care.

Half a loaf is better than none means that getting part of what you want is better than getting nothing at all. If you know which side your bread is buttered on, then you know what your best interests are and will act to protect them.

Many Americans like their bread toasted. Toast is cooked with dry heat until it starts to turn brown. But you are in big trouble if someone tells you you’re toast.

If you say something is a piece of cake, it means something is really easy, like a test you take in school. Cakes are often covered with a sweet topping, called icing. Icing on the cake means something good that happens in addition to another good thing. Another expression says you can’t have your cake and eat it, too. This means you cannot have everything your way, especially if two wishes oppose each other.

Hotcakes are also called pancakes. They contain flour, eggs, milk and baking powder. You cook them in a frying pan and eat them with fruit or a sweet topping.  If a new product is popular and selling well, you might say it isselling like hotcakes.

But if a friend of yours did something bad, you might stop being friends with him immediately or drop him like a hotcake.

Flat as a pancake describes something that is, well, really flat.

A tough cookie is not something you want to eat. It is a person who is difficult to deal with, and would do anything necessary to get what he or she wants. This person could be a sharp cookie or someone who is not easily fooled. Very often things do not go the way we planned. Instead of getting angry or sad, you might just accept it and say that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Many pies are also good to eat. If something is easy to do, you could say it iseasy as pie. But if you do something wrong or bad, you might have to apologize and show you are sorry. In other words, you might have to eat humble pie.

If you have an idea or plan that is not really possible, someone might say it ispie in the sky. If something is really easy to do, you might say it is liketaking candy from a baby. But that would not be a very nice thing to do!

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This program was written by Shelley Gollust. I'm Faith Lapidus. You can find more WORDS AND THEIR STORIES at our website, voaspecialenglish.com.

Video Killed The Radio Star

Language level: Advanced

Source: www.speakup.com.br

Standard: British accent

THE SONG

Video Killed The Radio Star

When television became popular in the 1950s, it was thought that this would spell the end for radio, but it survived this and many subsequent innovation.Yet in 1979 The Buggles released the huge hit "Video Killed the Radio Star." Co-written, sung and produced by studio wizard Trevor Horn, the singer reminisces about lying in Bed at night in 1952 (although Horn would then have been just three years old!), listening to what was then known as a "wireless." Despite his tender years, Horn was profoundly affected by what he heard.

Much has been written about the influence of the music video, but in the second verse Horn talks about how radio's influence has been ignored - the "second symphony" refers to the new wave of more electronic music, using technology to rewrite old ideas. (Ironically, the electronic synthesizer features heavily on the track, played by Hans Zimmer, who is now a film score composer). Some day in the future the singer will shamefully tell a new generation that video was the cause of the death of radio. The singer goes to an old radio studio to listen to old tapes on playback, and remembers the jingles, the short radio signature tunes - just like the "oo-a-oh" of the song. Radio was the first and the last, music started with radio, and will end with its demise. As he reflects, or looks around him as he drives his car, he realizes technology has come so far that is it impossible to rewind, or turn things back, and return to the golden age.

The song concludes with him surrendering to new technology of the VTR (Video Tape Recorder - now, 30 years later, it is itself obsolete!), and recognising the star on the screen as a one-time radio star.

"Video Killed The Radio Star" was also inspired by  the science fiction story "The Sound Sweep" by J.G. Ballard. The song took three long months to record and went to number one in 16 different countries. MTV, no doubt aware of the irony, chose it as their one millionth video to be screened. Trevor Horn became a career-reviving producer, working with Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Grace Jones and Tina Turner, amongst others.

He was also responsible for the success of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, a band who embraced the music video.

USEFUL SITES AND BLOGS IN ENGLISH

Actually today I’m going to talk about useful links on the internet, you find out a couple of them on my blog, for Brazilian and foreign people follow the list below:

Brazilian Blogs and sites:

http://www.denilsodelima.blogspot.com

http://www.teclasap.com.br

http://www.teachermanoelcarlos.blogspot.com

http://www.ingvip.com

http://www.ingvip.com/curso-de-conversacao.htm  (38 videos of Pro-Jovem) available on Inglês vip.

http://www.englishexperts.com.br  very useful for Self-Taught students as well as teachers.

http://www.maganews.com  it’s a Brazilian magazine I recommend for Students and Teachers visit the site, it’s not too expensive, great material.

There are many others, this is my favorite ones, of course due the Google Translator you may access without problem.

Blogs and English websites I recommend worldwide.

http://helpforyourenglish.wordpress.com/  I love this one.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/  Excellent for Teachers great blog

http://www.englishexercises.org  (Excellent for Teachers and students)

http://www.real-english.com 

http://www.voanews.com  One of the best for beginners and all English learners must visit.

http://www.learningchocolate.com  Very useful for kids, and of course adults too, because I love games, once in a while I’m accessing there.

http://englishdailyworkout.blogspot.com/  Excellent ESL site for Teachers and students too.

http://www.elllo.org  ESL site

http://www.englishpractice.com/  great ESL site for Teachers and students.

http://www.idiomquest.com 

http://www.idiomsite.com

http://www.eslcafe.com/  Very useful too, ESL Site.

http://englishdailyworkout.blogspot.com/  this one is interesting ESL, by the way.

Do not forget to promote this sites and blogs, social media is excellent, you are promoting spammers but Education, not violence, unless knowledge. Thank you visiting, on my blog you will find out several links, no porn content or spam. You may have a wonderful weekend.